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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-05-04 23:39:21 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noline.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noline.html deleted file mode 100644 index fcaa3654556..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-noline.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label noline</title> -</head><body> -<h3>No line here to end</h3> -<p/>The error -<blockquote> -<pre> -! LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end. - -See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. -</pre> - -</blockquote><p> -comes in reaction to you giving LaTeX a <code>\</code><code>\</code> command at a time -when it’s not expecting it. The commonest case is where you’ve -decided you want the label of a list item to be on a line of its own, -so you’ve written (for example): -<blockquote> -<pre> -\begin{description} -\item[Very long label] \\ - Text... -\end{description} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -<code>\</code><code>\</code> is actually a rather bad command to use in this case (even if -it worked), since it would force the ‘paragraph’ that’s made up of the -text of the item to terminate a line which has nothing on it but the -label. This would lead to an “<code>Underfull \hbox</code>” warning message -(usually with ‘infinite’ badness of 10000); while this message doesn’t -do any actual harm other than slowing down your LaTeX run, any -message that doesn’t convey any information distracts for no useful -purpose. -<p/>The proper solution to the problem is to write a new sort of -<code>description</code> environment, that does just what you’re after. (The - -<a href="FAQ-books.html"><em>LaTeX Companion</em></a> offers a -rather wide selection of variants of these things.) -<p/>The quick-and-easy solution, which avoids the warning, is to write: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\begin{description} -\item[Very long label] \hspace*{\fill} \\ - Text... -\end{description} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -which fills out the under-full line before forcing its closure. The -<i>expdlist</i> package provides the same functionality with its -<code>\</code><code>breaklabel</code> command, and <i>mdwlist</i> provides it via its -<code>\</code><code>desclabelstyle</code> command. -<p/>The other common occasion for the message is when you’re using the -<code>center</code> (or <code>flushleft</code> or <code>flushright</code>) -environment, and have decided you need extra separation between lines -in the environment: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\begin{center} - First (heading) line\\ - \\ - body of the centred text... -\end{center} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -The solution here is plain: use the <code>\\</code> command in the way it’s -supposed to be used, to provide more than just a single line break -space. <code>\\</code> takes an optional argument, which specifies -how much extra space to add; the required effect in the text above can -be had by saying: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\begin{center} - First (heading) line\\[\baselineskip] - body of the centred text... -\end{center} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>expdlist.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/expdlist.zip">macros/latex/contrib/expdlist</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/expdlist/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>mdwlist.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mdwlist.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p/> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noline">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=noline</a> -</body> |